About

Behavioral Economics Lab is an interactive, citable directory of the psychology behind decisions: 14 cognitive biases, 8 empirical nudge findings across 26 journals, 43 research summaries, and 4 original long-form essays.

What makes it different

Most bias glossaries stop at a definition. Our differentiator is a structured, dated, cited findings database: every empirical result records the study, population, intervention, and measured control-versus-treatment outcome, and links back to the biases it leverages. That structure is what makes the site useful to researchers, practitioners, and AI assistants alike.

Principles

• Original writing. Every definition and example is written from scratch — never copied or paraphrased from other references.
• No fabricated data. Effect sizes, samples, authors, and dates come from the actual studies; nothing is invented.
• Traceable evidence. Findings cite their source; biases link to the findings that document them.

See our methodology for how entries are selected and summarized.